From 607eece72a91beb0e9a598a987e51a56bcffb434 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Matthew Donoughe <mdonoughe@pm.me>
Date: Thu, 20 Oct 2022 20:18:06 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] move to after check

---
 scrapy/commands/runspider.py | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/scrapy/commands/runspider.py b/scrapy/commands/runspider.py
index a8db1cd86..ed16c3fb6 100644
--- a/scrapy/commands/runspider.py
+++ b/scrapy/commands/runspider.py
@@ -12,9 +12,9 @@ from scrapy.commands import BaseRunSpiderCommand
 
 def _import_file(filepath: Union[str, PathLike]) -> ModuleType:
     abspath = Path(filepath).resolve()
-    dirname = str(abspath.parent)
     if abspath.suffix not in ('.py', '.pyw'):
         raise ValueError(f"Not a Python source file: {abspath}")
+    dirname = str(abspath.parent)
     if dirname:
         sys.path = [dirname] + sys.path
     try: