diff --git a/stdlib/2and3/xml/sax/__init__.pyi b/stdlib/2and3/xml/sax/__init__.pyi
index 68eddd642..faabf4108 100644
--- a/stdlib/2and3/xml/sax/__init__.pyi
+++ b/stdlib/2and3/xml/sax/__init__.pyi
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
-from typing import Any, List, NoReturn, Optional, Text, Union, IO
+from typing import Any, Iterable, List, NoReturn, Optional, Text, Union, IO
 
+import sys
 import xml.sax
 from xml.sax.xmlreader import InputSource, Locator
 from xml.sax.handler import ContentHandler, ErrorHandler
@@ -23,7 +24,10 @@ class SAXReaderNotAvailable(SAXNotSupportedException): ...
 
 default_parser_list: List[str]
 
-def make_parser(parser_list: List[str] = ...) -> xml.sax.xmlreader.XMLReader: ...
+if sys.version_info >= (3, 8):
+    def make_parser(parser_list: Iterable[str] = ...) -> xml.sax.xmlreader.XMLReader: ...
+else:
+    def make_parser(parser_list: List[str] = ...) -> xml.sax.xmlreader.XMLReader: ...
 
 def parse(source: Union[str, IO[str], IO[bytes]], handler: xml.sax.handler.ContentHandler,
           errorHandler: xml.sax.handler.ErrorHandler = ...) -> None: ...
diff --git a/tests/stubtest_whitelists/py38.txt b/tests/stubtest_whitelists/py38.txt
index c4b55a503..712257571 100644
--- a/tests/stubtest_whitelists/py38.txt
+++ b/tests/stubtest_whitelists/py38.txt
@@ -276,7 +276,6 @@ weakref.getweakrefcount
 webbrowser.Opera.raise_opts
 xml.etree.ElementTree.XMLParser.__init__
 xml.etree.cElementTree.XMLParser.__init__
-xml.sax.make_parser
 zipfile.Path.open
 zipfile.ZipExtFile.__init__
 zipfile.ZipExtFile.seek