looking for sweeter code to compare parts of a list

[buran]

maybe something like this

datadict = {}
options = [({4:'foo', 5:'bar', 9:'xyzzy', 10:'yzzyx', 14:'Skaperen'}, (1, 2, 3)),
           ({4:'bar', 5:'foo', 9:'yzzyx', 11:'xyzzy', 14:'Skaperen'}, (2, 1, 3))]
for line in sys.stdin:
   tokens = line.rstrip().split()
   for opt, get_tokens in options:
       if all(tokens[k] == value for k, value in opt.items()):
           processed += 1
           datadict[tokens[0]] = tuple((tokens[i] for i in get_tokens))
           break
       else:
          skipped += 1

note I assume initial value  of processed, skipped i set before the snippet you provide. Not sure if you really need processed (you can always check the len of datadict). maybe if you want to compare processed + skipped to total number of records to process?