Split vals depending on condition

Question

I need to split invoice.number like if there is white-space Serial is first part and Number is second. But also if there is no whitespace then Serial stays blank and Number will be all invoice.number. how can i do it? i need to create some IF statement in my for loop ?

Update

for Exmaple invoice.number is AA 555 so Serial will be AA and number will be 555 , but if invoice.number is AA555 Serial will be "" and Number will be AA555. But we don't know what exact invoice.number will be

for line in invoice.invoice_line_ids:
     vals = {
            'Serial': invoice.number or '',
            'Number':invoice.number or '',
            }

Answer 1

Becase the values is a dictionary, so you can use it very sample,

def parse(number):
    resultList = []
    resultDirt = dict()
    tempList = number.split(" ")
    if len(tempList) > 1:
        resultDirt['Serial'] = tempList[0]
        resultDirt['Number'] = tempList[1]
    else:
        resultDirt['Serial'] = ""
        resultDirt['Number'] = tempList[0]

    resultList.append(resultDirt)
    print(resultList)
    return resultList

parse("1321321 jkhhkhk")
parse("13215465465")

The output is,

[{'Number': 'jkhhkhk', 'Serial': '1321321'}]
[{'Number': '13215465465', 'Serial': ''}]