Prints out the specified Variant objects in a VCF-like form.

def _textOutput(self, gaObjects):
        """
        Prints out the specified Variant objects in a VCF-like form.
        """
        for variantAnnotation in gaObjects:
            print(
                variantAnnotation.id, variantAnnotation.variant_id,
                variantAnnotation.variant_annotation_set_id,
                variantAnnotation.created, sep="\t", end="\t")
            for effect in variantAnnotation.transcript_effects:
                print(effect.alternate_bases, sep="|", end="|")
                for so in effect.effects:
                    print(so.term, sep="&", end="|")
                    print(so.term_id, sep="&", end="|")
                print(effect.hgvs_annotation.transcript,
                      effect.hgvs_annotation.protein, sep="|", end="\t")
            print()