pylint and astroid AttributeError: 'Module' object has no attribute 'col_offset' - python-3.x

Question

It fails using pylint version 2.9.0 and 2.9.3. With version 2.8.3 it still works though.
See GitHub-issue under the provided link.
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/root/.pyenv/versions/3.8.8/lib/python3.8/site-packages/astroid/inference_tip.py", line 19, in _inference_tip_cached
return iter(_cache[func, node])
KeyError: (<function register_builtin_transform.<locals>._transform_wrapper at 0x7f310b222700>, <Call l.166 at 0x7f3102ebf970>)
During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/root/.pyenv/versions/3.8.8/bin/pylint", line 8, in <module>
sys.exit(run_pylint())
File "/root/.pyenv/versions/3.8.8/lib/python3.8/site-packages/pylint/__init__.py", line 24, in run_pylint
PylintRun(sys.argv[1:])
File "/root/.pyenv/versions/3.8.8/lib/python3.8/site-packages/pylint/lint/run.py", line 384, in __init__
linter.check(args)
File "/root/.pyenv/versions/3.8.8/lib/python3.8/site-packages/pylint/lint/pylinter.py", line 973, in check
self._check_files(
File "/root/.pyenv/versions/3.8.8/lib/python3.8/site-packages/pylint/lint/pylinter.py", line 1007, in _check_files
self._check_file(get_ast, check_astroid_module, name, filepath, modname)
File "/root/.pyenv/versions/3.8.8/lib/python3.8/site-packages/pylint/lint/pylinter.py", line 1033, in _check_file
check_astroid_module(ast_node)
File "/root/.pyenv/versions/3.8.8/lib/python3.8/site-packages/pylint/lint/pylinter.py", line 1170, in check_astroid_module
retval = self._check_astroid_module(
File "/root/.pyenv/versions/3.8.8/lib/python3.8/site-packages/pylint/lint/pylinter.py", line 1215, in _check_astroid_module
walker.walk(ast_node)
File "/root/.pyenv/versions/3.8.8/lib/python3.8/site-packages/pylint/utils/ast_walker.py", line 77, in walk
self.walk(child)
File "/root/.pyenv/versions/3.8.8/lib/python3.8/site-packages/pylint/utils/ast_walker.py", line 77, in walk
self.walk(child)
File "/root/.pyenv/versions/3.8.8/lib/python3.8/site-packages/pylint/utils/ast_walker.py", line 74, in walk
callback(astroid)
File "/root/.pyenv/versions/3.8.8/lib/python3.8/site-packages/pylint/checkers/typecheck.py", line 1071, in visit_assign
self._check_assignment_from_function_call(node)
File "/root/.pyenv/versions/3.8.8/lib/python3.8/site-packages/pylint/checkers/typecheck.py", line 1081, in _check_assignment_from_function_call
function_node = safe_infer(node.value.func)
File "/root/.pyenv/versions/3.8.8/lib/python3.8/site-packages/pylint/checkers/utils.py", line 1177, in safe_infer
value = next(infer_gen)
File "/root/.pyenv/versions/3.8.8/lib/python3.8/site-packages/astroid/node_classes.py", line 353, in infer
yield from self._infer(context, **kwargs)
File "/root/.pyenv/versions/3.8.8/lib/python3.8/site-packages/astroid/decorators.py", line 136, in raise_if_nothing_inferred
yield next(generator)
File "/root/.pyenv/versions/3.8.8/lib/python3.8/site-packages/astroid/decorators.py", line 100, in wrapped
res = next(generator)
File "/root/.pyenv/versions/3.8.8/lib/python3.8/site-packages/astroid/inference.py", line 299, in infer_attribute
for owner in self.expr.infer(context):
File "/root/.pyenv/versions/3.8.8/lib/python3.8/site-packages/astroid/node_classes.py", line 367, in infer
for i, result in enumerate(generator):
File "/root/.pyenv/versions/3.8.8/lib/python3.8/site-packages/astroid/decorators.py", line 136, in raise_if_nothing_inferred
yield next(generator)
File "/root/.pyenv/versions/3.8.8/lib/python3.8/site-packages/astroid/decorators.py", line 100, in wrapped
res = next(generator)
File "/root/.pyenv/versions/3.8.8/lib/python3.8/site-packages/astroid/bases.py", line 144, in _infer_stmts
for inferred in stmt.infer(context=context):
File "/root/.pyenv/versions/3.8.8/lib/python3.8/site-packages/astroid/node_classes.py", line 367, in infer
for i, result in enumerate(generator):
File "/root/.pyenv/versions/3.8.8/lib/python3.8/site-packages/astroid/decorators.py", line 136, in raise_if_nothing_inferred
yield next(generator)
File "/root/.pyenv/versions/3.8.8/lib/python3.8/site-packages/astroid/decorators.py", line 100, in wrapped
res = next(generator)
File "/root/.pyenv/versions/3.8.8/lib/python3.8/site-packages/astroid/bases.py", line 144, in _infer_stmts
for inferred in stmt.infer(context=context):
File "/root/.pyenv/versions/3.8.8/lib/python3.8/site-packages/astroid/node_classes.py", line 343, in infer
results = tuple(self._explicit_inference(self, context, **kwargs))
File "/root/.pyenv/versions/3.8.8/lib/python3.8/site-packages/astroid/inference_tip.py", line 21, in _inference_tip_cached
result = func(*args, **kwargs)
File "/root/.pyenv/versions/3.8.8/lib/python3.8/site-packages/astroid/brain/brain_builtin_inference.py", line 203, in _transform_wrapper
if result.col_offset is None:
AttributeError: 'Module' object has no attribute 'col_offset'
The requirements.txt - file of this testing environment contains:
astroid
src/packages/project/requirements.txt
pycodestyle
pylint
pylint_junit
pytest
pytest-cov
yapf
with src/packages/project/requirements.txt containing:
awswrangler==2.8.0
babel==2.9.1
boto3==1.17.77
botocore==1.20.77
category-encoders==2.2.2
joblib==1.0.1
markdown==3.3.4
matplotlib==3.3.4
openpyxl==3.0.7
pandas==1.1.5
pyarrow==4.0.0
pytz==2021.1
requests==2.25.1
scikit-learn==0.24.2
simple_salesforce==1.0.0
EDIT on different attempts producing the same error:
Installing pylint=2.9.3
Installing astroid and pylint (latest versions, no version specification)
Installing astroid and pylint and upgrade astroid to latest version during build-process (in AWS test-buildspec.yml) via pip install --upgrade astroid (suggested here)

Answer 1

It look like you found a bug/crash in pylint 2.9, you can open an issue here. You can downgrade to 2.8.3 while it's being fixed.

Answer 2

Thanks to the work of #Pierre.Sassoulas this issue has been resolved (see here).
After having proven that the following combination of pylint - and astroid - versions worked well together without producing the OP-error, new commits have been made to the GitHub-project to fix the problem:
pip install pylint==2.9.3
pip install git+git://github.com/PyCQA/astroid.git#c37b6fd47b62486fd6cbe77b913b568b809f1a6d#egg=astroid
From here going forward, the issue should not occur again installing the latest version of pylint combined with astroid. Yet, if the issue returns, I'll let you know here.