diff --git a/ci_scripts/run-python-test.sh b/ci_scripts/run-python-test.sh
index 9fc9a7744..0d4cde7a9 100755
--- a/ci_scripts/run-python-test.sh
+++ b/ci_scripts/run-python-test.sh
@@ -19,5 +19,6 @@ rm -rf src/deltachat/__pycache__
 export PYTHONDONTWRITEBYTECODE=1
 
 # run python tests (tox invokes pytest to run tests in python/tests)
-TOX_PARALLEL_NO_SPINNER=1 tox -p2 -e lint,doc
-tox -e py37
+#TOX_PARALLEL_NO_SPINNER=1 tox -e lint,doc
+tox -e lint
+tox -e doc,py37
diff --git a/python/tox.ini b/python/tox.ini
index 32efe8df0..d882efff8 100644
--- a/python/tox.ini
+++ b/python/tox.ini
@@ -48,13 +48,12 @@ commands =
     rst-lint --encoding 'utf-8' README.rst
 
 [testenv:doc]
-skipsdist = True
-usedevelop = True
+changedir=doc
 deps =
     sphinx==2.2.0
     breathe
 commands =
-    sphinx-build -w toxdoc-warnings.log -b html doc doc/_build/html
+    sphinx-build -w toxdoc-warnings.log -b html . _build/html
 
 
 [testenv:lintdoc]