remove period_helper from non-period reqs
State: closed

There are a bunch of other reqs that _could_ be removed (e.g. every direct reference to src/util, all of `lib_depends`), but at least `period_helper` it's obvious _why_ it belongs where it does.

- [ ] closes #xxxx
- [ ] tests added / passed
- [ ] passes `git diff upstream/master -u -- "*.py" | flake8 --diff`
- [ ] whatsnew entry


Labels:
name: Compat
description: pandas objects compatability with Numpy or Python functions

Comments:
Hello @jbrockmendel! Thanks for submitting the PR.

 - In the file [`setup.py`](https://github.com/pandas-dev/pandas/blob/92251f445cb31f9cfa2b9cdc50270bfea238a582/setup.py), following are the PEP8 issues :

> [Line 480:80](https://github.com/pandas-dev/pandas/blob/92251f445cb31f9cfa2b9cdc50270bfea238a582/setup.py#L480): [E501](https://duckduckgo.com/?q=pep8%20E501) line too long (84 > 79 characters)


looks fine. ping on green.
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ping.
thanks!