From e931d3f72be04dfc0eb34831555ae2f66a90310e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Adriane Boyd <adrianeboyd@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 8 Dec 2020 07:24:02 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Move max_length to nlp.make_doc() (#6512)

Move max_length check to `nlp.make_doc()` so that's it's also checked
for `nlp.pipe()`.
---
 spacy/language.py | 8 ++++----
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/spacy/language.py b/spacy/language.py
index ee46da3c1..09476d3af 100644
--- a/spacy/language.py
+++ b/spacy/language.py
@@ -434,10 +434,6 @@ class Language(object):
 
         DOCS: https://spacy.io/api/language#call
         """
-        if len(text) > self.max_length:
-            raise ValueError(
-                Errors.E088.format(length=len(text), max_length=self.max_length)
-            )
         doc = self.make_doc(text)
         if component_cfg is None:
             component_cfg = {}
@@ -464,6 +460,10 @@ class Language(object):
         return DisabledPipes(self, *names)
 
     def make_doc(self, text):
+        if len(text) > self.max_length:
+            raise ValueError(
+                Errors.E088.format(length=len(text), max_length=self.max_length)
+            )
         return self.tokenizer(text)
 
     def _format_docs_and_golds(self, docs, golds):