diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index f905db6c..f20f18ac 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -21,9 +21,6 @@ skip_glob = [
     "**/*_pb2.pyi",
 ]
 skip = [
-    "setup.py", # setuptools needs to be loaded before distutils.
-                # Instruct isort not to go there. There be dragons.
-    "docs/conf.py",
     ".eggs",
     ".git",
     ".hg",
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index b643d03e..544c15e4 100755
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -4,10 +4,12 @@
 # since the former packages its own version of the latter.
 #
 # See https://setuptools.readthedocs.io/en/latest/deprecated/distutils-legacy.html
+# isort: off
 from setuptools import Command, setup
 from setuptools.command.build_py import build_py
 from setuptools.command.develop import develop
 
+# isort: on
 import logging
 import os
 import re