figure - the appli cation output as it appears in excel figure - the appli cation output as it appears in wordpad reading file content at this pointthe data is on the hard drive of courseit' nice and safe therebut it really isn' useful because you can' see it to see the datayou must read it into memory and then do something with it the following steps show how to read data from the hard drive and into memory so that you can display it onscreen this example also appears with the downloadable source code as formatteddata py and readcsv py open the previously saved formatteddata py file you see the code originally created in the "creating filesectionearlier in this appear onscreen this example makes modifications to the original code so that the class can now save file to disk