diff --git a/scripts/run_pylint.py b/scripts/run_pylint.py
index ac04989943c1..c1a5d7364110 100644
--- a/scripts/run_pylint.py
+++ b/scripts/run_pylint.py
@@ -33,6 +33,7 @@
 IGNORED_DIRECTORIES = [
     os.path.join('gcloud', 'bigtable', '_generated'),
     os.path.join('gcloud', 'datastore', '_generated'),
+    'scripts/verify_included_modules.py',
 ]
 IGNORED_FILES = [
     os.path.join('docs', 'conf.py'),
diff --git a/tox.ini b/tox.ini
index b87dcef0610a..006dbffe3ec5 100644
--- a/tox.ini
+++ b/tox.ini
@@ -155,7 +155,6 @@ deps =
     {[testing]deps}
     pycodestyle
     pylint >= 1.6.4
-    sphinx
 setenv =
     PYTHONPATH = {toxinidir}/_testing
 passenv = {[testenv:system-tests]passenv}