diff --git a/stdlib/2and3/xml/etree/ElementTree.pyi b/stdlib/2and3/xml/etree/ElementTree.pyi
index 4722ba271..36ac6c90a 100644
--- a/stdlib/2and3/xml/etree/ElementTree.pyi
+++ b/stdlib/2and3/xml/etree/ElementTree.pyi
@@ -19,6 +19,7 @@ from typing import (
     Union,
     overload,
 )
+from _typeshed import AnyPath, FileDescriptor
 import sys
 from typing_extensions import Literal
 
@@ -56,11 +57,7 @@ else:
     # _fixtext function in the source). Client code knows best:
     _str_result_type = Any
 
-if sys.version_info >= (3, 6):
-    from os import PathLike
-    _file_or_filename = Union[str, bytes, PathLike[str], int, IO[Any]]
-else:
-    _file_or_filename = Union[str, bytes, int, IO[Any]]
+_file_or_filename = Union[AnyPath, FileDescriptor, IO[Any]]
 
 if sys.version_info >= (3, 8):
     class _Writeable(Protocol):