diff --git a/stdlib/xml/dom/minidom.pyi b/stdlib/xml/dom/minidom.pyi
index 7a6eb192b..dc128e016 100644
--- a/stdlib/xml/dom/minidom.pyi
+++ b/stdlib/xml/dom/minidom.pyi
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
-from typing import Any, Optional, Text, Union
+from typing import IO, Any, Optional, Text, Union
 from xml.sax.xmlreader import XMLReader
 
-def parse(file: str, parser: Optional[XMLReader] = ..., bufsize: Optional[int] = ...): ...
+def parse(file: Union[str, IO[Any]], parser: Optional[XMLReader] = ..., bufsize: Optional[int] = ...): ...
 def parseString(string: Union[bytes, Text], parser: Optional[XMLReader] = ...): ...
 def __getattr__(name: str) -> Any: ...  # incomplete