diff --git a/docs/contributing.rst b/docs/contributing.rst
index 3318ec103..9ceb0fbdd 100644
--- a/docs/contributing.rst
+++ b/docs/contributing.rst
@@ -71,6 +71,9 @@ The following tools are there to help you:
   experimental, non-production Apache2 install on them.  ``tox -e
   apacheconftest`` can be used to run those specific Apache conf tests.
 
+- ``tox --skip-missing-interpreters`` runs tox while ignoring missing versions
+  of Python needed for running the tests.
+
 - ``tox -e py27``, ``tox -e py26`` etc, run unit tests for specific Python
   versions.
 
diff --git a/tox.ini b/tox.ini
index 5c88dfd21..4067bada9 100644
--- a/tox.ini
+++ b/tox.ini
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 
 [tox]
 skipsdist = true
-envlist = py{26,27,33,34,35},py{26,27}-oldest,cover,lint
+envlist = py{26,33,34,35},cover,lint
 
 # nosetest -v => more verbose output, allows to detect busy waiting
 # loops, especially on Travis