MAINT: a few mutable default arguments are back

[tylerjereddy]

Oli dealt with this 9 years ago in gh-590, but a few cases have accumulated since then. It is fairly low priority but easy to fix.

Can check locally with i.e., ruff.toml like this:

[lint]
ignore = ["E501"]
select = ["B006", "B008"]

ruff check package

Some obscure bug happened because of this in another project so I just thought of it again.

[Plomo-02]

Hello, can I be assigned to this issue?

[RMeli]

@Plomo-02 we do not assign issues. Since there is no other open PR against this issue, feel free to work on it and open a PR when you are ready for review.

[tanishy7777]

I have tried to fix this issue in the above PR (#4810). Please let me know if any further changes are to be made for this issue.
@RMeli @tylerjereddy