Python 2.6 Trivia game, multiple choice and true/false at random

Question

import random
players = 0
player1 = 0
player2 = 0

def open_file(file_name, mode):
    try:
        the_file = open(file_name, mode)
    except(IOError), e:
        print 'Cannot open file', file_name + '. Try moving its location.'
        raw_input('\nPress enter to exit. ')
        sys.exit()
    else:
        return the_file

def next_line(the_file):
    line = the_file.readline()
    line = line.replace('/', '\n')
    return line

def main():    
    file = open_file('Trivia_Questions.txt', 'r')
    questions = file.read().split('\n\n')
    file.close()
    random.shuffle(questions)
    for question in questions.splitlines():
        if next_line(question) == 'Multiple Choice':
            subject, question, answer1, answer2, answer3, answer4, reason, empty  = map(question)
            print subject
            print question
            print '1 -', answer1
            print '1 -', answer1
            print '1 -', answer1
            print '1 -', answer1
            print reason
            subject, question, answer1, answer2, answer3, answer4, reason, empty = next_block(file)
        else:
            subject, question, answer1, answer2, reason, empty = map(question)
            print subject
            print question
            print '1 -', answer1
            print '2 -', answer2
            print reason
            print empty
            subject, question, answer1, answer2, reason, empty = next_block(file)



main()

I have been looking up on how to go about doing this, and have no idea what to do. When I attempt to run this code i get

AttributeError: 'list' object has no attribute 'splitlines'

My txt file is setup like mult choice question answer1 answer2 answer3 answer4 correct answer# reasonwhy

true/false question t f correct t or f reasonwhy

repeat 12x

ive been searching online for 2 days before i decided to ask so any assistance would be much appreciated. I need to correctly have a trivia game randomly select a question, whether its true/false for mult choice, not use the question again.

Answer 1

You already split your file into a list:

questions = file.read().split('\n\n')

so questions is a list here. You cannot then try to split questions into a new list here:

for question in questions.splitlines():

If you wanted to split each individual question into separate lines, do so in the loop:

for question in questions:
    for questionline in question.splitlines()