diff --git a/doc/conftest.py b/doc/conftest.py
index 6755f8892..6f7afeb58 100644
--- a/doc/conftest.py
+++ b/doc/conftest.py
@@ -1,9 +1,8 @@
 #XXX make work: excludedirs = ['_build']
 import py
-#py.test.importorskip("pygments")
 pytest_plugins = ['pytest_restdoc']
 collect_ignore = ['test/attic.txt']
 
 def pytest_runtest_setup(item):
     if item.fspath.ext == ".txt":
-        import pygments # for raising an error
+        py.test.importorskip("pygments") # for raising an error