DEPR: Deprecate range-based PeriodIndex construction
Closes https://github.com/pandas-dev/pandas/issues/20535
Hello @TomAugspurger! Thanks for updating the PR.









































Cheers ! There are no PEP8 issues in this Pull Request. :beers: 

##### Comment last updated on December 28, 2018 at 13:35 Hours UTC Well, that's unfortunate (on master)

```python
In [3]: pd.period_range(start='2000', periods=2)
Out[3]: PeriodIndex(['2000-01-01', '2000-01-02'], dtype='period[D]', freq='D')

In [4]: pd.PeriodIndex(start='2000', periods=2)
Out[4]: PeriodIndex(['2000', '2001'], dtype='period[A-DEC]', freq='A-DEC')
``` # [Codecov](https://codecov.io/gh/pandas-dev/pandas/pull/24354?src=pr&el=h1) Report
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|---|---|---|
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 5473bf1d43acbb7dd33a56d083e8530a71f2d3c7 attempts to preserve the behavior of `pd.date_range`, while giving a good warning message.

Question: This introduces a difference between

1. `period_range("2000", periods=2)`
2. `period_range(pd.Period("2000", freq="A-JAN"), periods=2)`

The latter will have freq `A-JAN`. We're OK with that, right? Does anyone see the actual failure in https://dev.azure.com/pandas-dev/pandas/_build/results?buildId=5567

My latest commit fixes some warnings... but I don't think that's what caused the failure. Ah, just search the log for "failed". The sparse get_dummies is timing out:

```
2018-12-19T23:09:41.8974791Z [ 33.17%] ··· reshape.GetDummies.time_get_dummies_1d_sparse               failed
```

I must have messed something up... There's something strange going on with the series constructor... I'll open an issue soon. This is now on top of https://github.com/pandas-dev/pandas/pull/24372. Should be mergeable once that's in. thanks @TomAugspurger 