def getList(self):
        """Background loop."""
        url = 'http://xkcd.com/archive/'
        try:
            xml_str = str(urllib.request.urlopen(url).read()).split(
                '(Hover mouse over title to view publication date)<br /><br />',
                1)[-1].split(
                '</div>\\n<div id="bottom" class="box">', 1)[0].strip()
        except urllib.error.URLError as e:
            print ('Xkcd: %s: URL error %s reading list' %
                   (__name__, str(e.reason)))
        clean_xml_str = xml_str.split('<br/>')

        self.menu_list = []
        for line in clean_xml_str:
            if line is not None:
                line_id = line.split('"/', 1)[-1].split('/"', 1)[0]
                line_date = line.split('="', 2)[-1].split('">', 1)[0]
                line_title = line.split('">', 1)[-1].split('</', 1)[0]
                self.menu_list.append([line_title, line_id, line_date])

        sublime.set_timeout_async(self.window.show_quick_panel(
            self.menu_list, self.on_chosen), 0)
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