BUG: added fix for column index for DatetimeIndex type

pandas/core/generic.py

@@ -4002,6 +4002,13 @@ class  max_speed
         indices = np.asarray(indices, dtype=np.intp)
         if axis == 0 and indices.ndim == 1 and is_range_indexer(indices, len(self)):
             return self.copy(deep=False)
+
+
+        if axis == 1 and indices.ndim == 1 and is_range_indexer(indices, len(self.columns)):
+            # check if index is of type period, sets to object for slicing correct columns
+            if isinstance(self.index, DatetimeIndex) or isinstance(self.index, PeriodIndex): 
+                return self.copy(deep=False).astype('object')
+            return self.copy(deep=False)
 
         new_data = self._mgr.take(
             indices,

pandas/tests/series/indexing/test_getitem.py

@@ -24,6 +24,7 @@
     Categorical,
     DataFrame,
     DatetimeIndex,
+    PeriodIndex,
     Index,
     Series,
     Timestamp,
@@ -411,7 +412,33 @@ def test_getitem_uint_array_key(self, any_unsigned_int_numpy_dtype):
             ser[key]
         with pytest.raises(KeyError, match="4"):
             ser.loc[key]
-
+
+
+    def test_pivot_periodindex_hourly(self):
+        #GH issue 60273
+        pr = period_range('2024-01-01 00:00:00', '2024-01-01 02:00:00', freq='h')
+        df = DataFrame(index=pr)
+        df['date'] = df.index.to_timestamp().floor('D')
+        df['hour'] = df.index.hour
+        df.index.name = 'value'
+        df = df.reset_index()
+        df = df.pivot(index='date', columns='hour', values='value')
+        df=df.astype('object')
+        result = df[[0, 1, 2]]
+        expected = df
+
+        tm.assert_frame_equal(result, expected)
+
+    def test_getitem_periodindex_daily(self):
+        # GH issue 60273
+        df = pd.DataFrame(
+            data=[
+                pd.Period("2024-01-01", freq="D"),
+                pd.Period("2024-01-02", freq="D"),
+                pd.Period("2024-01-03", freq="D"),
+            ]
+        ).T
+        tm.assert_frame_equal(df[[0, 1, 2]], df)
 
 class TestGetitemBooleanMask:
     def test_getitem_boolean(self, string_series):