Fix mutable defaults in TSHM constructors#163
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This might be a rare case, but I encountered it while constructing head models including lesions.
The bug is mutable default arguments on TwoSurfaceHeadModel.from_segmentation (and .from_surfaces). Their mask_files dict and brain_seg_types / scalp_seg_types list defaults are evaluated once at function-definition time, so every call that doesn't pass those kwargs explictely shares the same underlying objects.
I wrote code that extends/mutates those defaults in place (a small helper appending a "lesion" entry), but that permanently changes what every subsequent call sees. All next calls to from_segmentation then run with a polluted mask set, often failing (e.g., with FileNotFoundError deep inside the NIFTI reader for a file the user never asked for).
Here's a little code snippet replicating the problem: