diff --git a/CHANGELOG b/CHANGELOG
index 976f520..0fcee14 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG
+++ b/CHANGELOG
@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@ v0.5 (unreleased):
 - Fixed parsing bugs involving:
   - wikitables nested in templates;
   - wikitable error recovery when unable to recurse.
+- Fixed parsing file-like objects.
 
 v0.4.3 (released October 29, 2015):
 
diff --git a/docs/changelog.rst b/docs/changelog.rst
index 5b4a909..66312d4 100644
--- a/docs/changelog.rst
+++ b/docs/changelog.rst
@@ -12,6 +12,8 @@ Unreleased
   - wikitables nested in templates;
   - wikitable error recovery when unable to recurse.
 
+- Fixed parsing file-like objects.
+
 v0.4.3
 ------
 
diff --git a/mwparserfromhell/utils.py b/mwparserfromhell/utils.py
index 28823fc..0c1f718 100644
--- a/mwparserfromhell/utils.py
+++ b/mwparserfromhell/utils.py
@@ -62,6 +62,8 @@ def parse_anything(value, context=0, skip_style_tags=False):
         return Parser().parse(str(value), context, skip_style_tags)
     elif value is None:
         return Wikicode(SmartList())
+    elif hasattr(value, "read"):
+        return parse_anything(value.read(), context, skip_style_tags)
     try:
         nodelist = SmartList()
         for item in value: