[python-sybase] More Pythonic default args

[Skip Montanaro]

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It seems more Pythonic to use None as a default parameter value instead of
mutable objects like dictionaries and lists, even when the parameters aren't
modified by the function.  A simple patch for execute() and executemany() is
attached.

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