From 67000068304b9a125ec792f32bed8491767dbed1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Leander Fiedler <lfiedler@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Sun, 12 Apr 2020 09:34:54 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] issue5230 attempted fix of pytest segfault for python3.5

---
 spacy/kb.pyx | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/spacy/kb.pyx b/spacy/kb.pyx
index 7c6865eed..14327f0d6 100644
--- a/spacy/kb.pyx
+++ b/spacy/kb.pyx
@@ -491,10 +491,10 @@ cdef class Writer:
 
 cdef class Reader:
     def __init__(self, object loc):
-        assert path.exists(loc)
-        assert not path.isdir(loc)
         if isinstance(loc, Path):
             loc = bytes(loc)
+        assert path.exists(loc)
+        assert not path.isdir(loc)
         cdef bytes bytes_loc = loc.encode('utf8') if type(loc) == unicode else loc
         self._fp = fopen(<char*>bytes_loc, 'rb')
         if not self._fp: