rs, when `freq` is required. When `values`
        is a PeriodArray (or box around), it's checked that ``values.freq``
        matches `freq`.
    copy : bool, default False
        Whether to copy the ordinals before storing.

    Attributes
    ----------
    None

    Methods
    -------
    None

    See Also
    --------
    Period: Represents a period of time.
    PeriodIndex : Immutable Index for period data.
    period_range: Create a fixed-frequency PeriodArray.
    array: Construct a pandas array.

    Notes
    -----
    There are two components to a PeriodArray

    - ordinals : integer ndarray
    - freq : pd.tseries.offsets.Offset

    The values are physically stored as a 1-D ndarray of integers. These are
    called "ordinals" and represent some kind of offset from a base.

    The `freq` indicates the span covered by each element of the array.
    All elements in the PeriodArray have the same `freq`.
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