Most efficient way to write data out to a text file?

[candiazoo at attbi.com]

trs_file.write("T%32d%-251s%-29s%-13s%-9s%6.2f%6.2f%-16s\n" % \
	(wrk_inst, title[0:251], pub_name[0:29], \
         std_num[0:13], date_range, base_fee, \
         page_fee, source_id))

This is how I am writing the record[s] now.  Not much gain but the other thing
is I need to handle nulls returned from the database (none values in pub_name)
and I need to limit the size (as you can see) of some of the fields because the
database field is much larger than the text field allows...

Mike