Getting AttributeError: 'Import' object has no attribute 'infer_name_module' on import

[pmspire]

Issue:

(base) ~ % conda create -y -n foo -c conda-forge --override-channels pylint >/dev/null
(base) ~ % conda activate foo
(foo) ~ % cat <<EOF >a.py
> import os
> EOF
(foo) ~ % pylint a.py
************* Module a
a.py:1:0: C0111: Missing module docstring (missing-docstring)
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/tmp/mc/envs/foo/bin/pylint", line 11, in <module>
    sys.exit(run_pylint())
  File "/tmp/mc/envs/foo/lib/python3.7/site-packages/pylint/__init__.py", line 20, in run_pylint
    Run(sys.argv[1:])
  File "/tmp/mc/envs/foo/lib/python3.7/site-packages/pylint/lint.py", line 1608, in __init__
    linter.check(args)
  File "/tmp/mc/envs/foo/lib/python3.7/site-packages/pylint/lint.py", line 938, in check
    self._do_check(files_or_modules)
  File "/tmp/mc/envs/foo/lib/python3.7/site-packages/pylint/lint.py", line 1071, in _do_check
    self.check_astroid_module(ast_node, walker, rawcheckers, tokencheckers)
  File "/tmp/mc/envs/foo/lib/python3.7/site-packages/pylint/lint.py", line 1154, in check_astroid_module
    walker.walk(ast_node)
  File "/tmp/mc/envs/foo/lib/python3.7/site-packages/pylint/utils.py", line 1269, in walk
    self.walk(child)
  File "/tmp/mc/envs/foo/lib/python3.7/site-packages/pylint/utils.py", line 1266, in walk
    cb(astroid)
  File "/tmp/mc/envs/foo/lib/python3.7/site-packages/pylint/checkers/variables.py", line 1582, in visit_import
    module = next(node.infer_name_module(parts[0]))
AttributeError: 'Import' object has no attribute 'infer_name_module'

Environment (conda list):

$ conda list
# packages in environment at /tmp/mc/envs/foo:
#
# Name                    Version                   Build  Channel
astroid                   2.2.0                    py37_0    conda-forge
bzip2                     1.0.6             h14c3975_1002    conda-forge
ca-certificates           2018.11.29           ha4d7672_0    conda-forge
certifi                   2018.11.29            py37_1000    conda-forge
isort                     4.3.9                    py37_0    conda-forge
lazy-object-proxy         1.3.1           py37h14c3975_1000    conda-forge
libffi                    3.2.1             hf484d3e_1005    conda-forge
libgcc-ng                 7.3.0                hdf63c60_0    conda-forge
libstdcxx-ng              7.3.0                hdf63c60_0    conda-forge
mccabe                    0.6.1                      py_1    conda-forge
ncurses                   6.1               hf484d3e_1002    conda-forge
openssl                   1.1.1a            h14c3975_1000    conda-forge
pip                       19.0.3                   py37_0    conda-forge
pylint                    2.2.2                 py37_1000    conda-forge
python                    3.7.1             h381d211_1002    conda-forge
readline                  7.0               hf8c457e_1001    conda-forge
setuptools                40.8.0                   py37_0    conda-forge
six                       1.12.0                py37_1000    conda-forge
sqlite                    3.26.0            h67949de_1000    conda-forge
tk                        8.6.9             h84994c4_1000    conda-forge
wheel                     0.33.1                   py37_0    conda-forge
wrapt                     1.11.1           py37h14c3975_0    conda-forge
xz                        5.2.4             h14c3975_1001    conda-forge
zlib                      1.2.11            h14c3975_1004    conda-forge

Details about conda and system ( conda info ):

$ conda info

     active environment : foo
    active env location : /tmp/mc/envs/foo
            shell level : 2
       user config file : /home/pmadden/.condarc
 populated config files : 
          conda version : 4.6.7
    conda-build version : not installed
         python version : 3.7.2.final.0
       base environment : /tmp/mc  (writable)
           channel URLs : https://repo.anaconda.com/pkgs/main/linux-64
                          https://repo.anaconda.com/pkgs/main/noarch
                          https://repo.anaconda.com/pkgs/free/linux-64
                          https://repo.anaconda.com/pkgs/free/noarch
                          https://repo.anaconda.com/pkgs/r/linux-64
                          https://repo.anaconda.com/pkgs/r/noarch
          package cache : /tmp/mc/pkgs
                          /home/pmadden/.conda/pkgs
       envs directories : /tmp/mc/envs
                          /home/pmadden/.conda/envs
               platform : linux-64
             user-agent : conda/4.6.7 requests/2.21.0 CPython/3.7.2 Linux/4.15.0-45-generic ubuntu/18.04.2 glibc/2.27
                UID:GID : 1000:1000
             netrc file : /home/pmadden/.netrc
           offline mode : False

[pmspire]

If I pin astroid=2.1.0 to avoid installation of 2.2.0, I can avoid this error. Since astroid was updated 8 hours ago, it seems like the problem might be there.

[pmspire]

I can no longer reproduce this, closing.

[jjhelmus]

I believe this was fixed in Pylint 2.3.0.

c.f. pylint-dev/astroid#649