diff --git a/python/src/com/jetbrains/python/codeInsight/stdlib/PyStdlibTypeProvider.java b/python/src/com/jetbrains/python/codeInsight/stdlib/PyStdlibTypeProvider.java
index cf6b9ef19301..c1ec4cc221a9 100644
--- a/python/src/com/jetbrains/python/codeInsight/stdlib/PyStdlibTypeProvider.java
+++ b/python/src/com/jetbrains/python/codeInsight/stdlib/PyStdlibTypeProvider.java
@@ -37,7 +37,8 @@ import java.util.Set;
  * @author yole
  */
 public class PyStdlibTypeProvider extends PyTypeProviderBase {
-  private static final Set<String> OPEN_FUNCTIONS = ImmutableSet.of("__builtin__.open", "io.open", "os.fdopen");
+  private static final Set<String> OPEN_FUNCTIONS = ImmutableSet.of("__builtin__.open", "io.open", "os.fdopen",
+                                                                    "pathlib.Path.open");
   private static final String BINARY_FILE_TYPE = "io.FileIO[bytes]";
   private static final String TEXT_FILE_TYPE = "io.TextIOWrapper[unicode]";