[Python] KeyError: 'Name' in pipenv/vendor/importlib_metadata/_adapters.py:54 using pipenv

I got this weird error in my CI/CD pipeline running in GCP Cloud build.

Package installation failed... KeyError: 'Name' site-packages/pipenv/vendor/importlib_metadata/_adapters.py:54 everything is working locally when runnning pipenv install.
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I'm running in python 3.11.4.

Troubleshooting steps that I have followed are:

• Remove the Pipfile.lock entirely and run again pipenv install didn't work.
• Removed the environment entirely pipenv --rm and removed the cache pip cache purge then recreate again the env pipenv shell && pipenv install didn't solved the issue.

Still more on it:

• I found this thread: https://github.com/pypa/twine/issues/1125#issuecomment-2191295673 where the issue is identified as caused by a breaking change in importlib_metadata==8.0.0 and that the way of solving it is just pin the version importlib-metadata==7.2.1 so I went ahead and applied the change but unfortunately it didn't solved the issue.
• I ran as well pipenv graph | grep "importlib" and all the dependencies for importlib are pointing to that 7.2.1 version.

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