A new version of astroid was just deployed which is causing pylint to crash. I have Pylint pinned to version 2.2.2. but I hadn't pinned astroid, so that package was upgraded to 2.2.0. This then caused the crash:

PS D:\shared\python\ctn-compass> D:\shared.venv3.7.1\python\ctn-compass\scripts\pylint --rcfile=..\pylintrc src
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "d:\shared.venv3.7.1\python\ctn-compass\lib\runpy.py", line 193, in run_module_as_main
"main", mod_spec)
File "d:\shared.venv3.7.1\python\ctn-compass\lib\runpy.py", line 85, in run_code
exec(code, run_globals)
File "D:\shared.venv3.7.1\python\ctn-compass\scripts\pylint.exe_main.py", line 9, in
File "d:\shared.venv3.7.1\python\ctn-compass\lib\site-packages\pylint_init.py", line 20, in run_pylint
Run(sys.argv[1:])
File "d:\shared.venv3.7.1\python\ctn-compass\lib\site-packages\pylint\lint.py", line 1608, in init
linter.check(args)
File "d:\shared.venv3.7.1\python\ctn-compass\lib\site-packages\pylint\lint.py", line 938, in check
self._do_check(files_or_modules)
File "d:\shared.venv3.7.1\python\ctn-compass\lib\site-packages\pylint\lint.py", line 1071, in _do_check
self.check_astroid_module(ast_node, walker, rawcheckers, tokencheckers)
File "d:\shared.venv3.7.1\python\ctn-compass\lib\site-packages\pylint\lint.py", line 1154, in check_astroid_module
walker.walk(ast_node)
File "d:\shared.venv3.7.1\python\ctn-compass\lib\site-packages\pylint\utils.py", line 1269, in walk
self.walk(child)
File "d:\shared.venv3.7.1\python\ctn-compass\lib\site-packages\pylint\utils.py", line 1266, in walk
cb(astroid)
File "d:\shared.venv3.7.1\python\ctn-compass\lib\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'

Maybe astroid version 2.2.0 is incompabitl with pylint 2.2.2?