diff --git a/src/backing/item.rs b/src/backing/item.rs
index 8c926a5..55ac901 100644
--- a/src/backing/item.rs
+++ b/src/backing/item.rs
@@ -10,12 +10,12 @@ pub struct Item<D: Clone, P: PartialOrd + Clone> {
 
 impl<D: Clone, P: PartialOrd + Clone> Item<D, P> {
     /// Creates a new instance
-    pub fn new(data: D, priority: P) -> Self {
+    fn new(data: D, priority: P) -> Self {
         Self { data, priority }
     }
 
     /// Retrieve the internal data, it would be nicer to implement this using [`From`] or [`Into`], but I don't see a way to do that using generics
-    pub fn data(self) -> D {
+    fn data(self) -> D {
         self.data
     }
 }
diff --git a/src/queue/paired.rs b/src/queue/paired.rs
index c8cda9f..ab837cf 100644
--- a/src/queue/paired.rs
+++ b/src/queue/paired.rs
@@ -1,13 +1,9 @@
-/// A "paired" priority queue that links some data to a priority and supports duplicates, but not arbitrary deletions or weight updates
+// A "pure" priority queue that supports duplicates, but not arbitrary deletions or weight updates
 use crate::backing::{
     item::Item,
     pure::{BinaryHeap, PureBacking},
 };
-use pyo3::{
-    exceptions::{PyIndexError, PyStopIteration, PyTypeError},
-    prelude::*,
-    types::{PyDict, PyType},
-};
+use pyo3::prelude::*;
 
 #[pyclass]
 pub struct PairedQueue {
@@ -16,97 +12,14 @@ pub struct PairedQueue {
 
 #[pymethods]
 impl PairedQueue {
-    #[classmethod]
-    fn __class_getitem__(cls_: Bound<'_, PyType>, _key: Py<PyAny>) -> Bound<'_, PyType> {
-        cls_
-    }
-
     #[new]
-    #[pyo3(signature = (items=None))]
-    fn new(items: Option<Py<PyAny>>) -> PyResult<Self> {
-        if let Some(py_object) = items {
-            Python::with_gil(|py| Self::new_from_any(py_object.bind(py)))
-        } else {
-            Ok(Self {
-                backing: Box::new(BinaryHeap::new()),
-            })
+    fn new() -> Self {
+        Self {
+            backing: Box::new(BinaryHeap::new()),
         }
     }
 
     fn __len__(self_: PyRef<'_, Self>) -> usize {
         self_.backing.len()
     }
-
-    fn __iter__(self_: PyRef<'_, Self>) -> PyRef<'_, Self> {
-        self_
-    }
-
-    fn __next__(mut self_: PyRefMut<'_, Self>) -> PyResult<Py<PyAny>> {
-        if let Some(item) = self_.backing.pop() {
-            Ok(item.data())
-        } else {
-            Err(PyErr::new::<PyStopIteration, _>(()))
-        }
-    }
-
-    fn pop(mut self_: PyRefMut<'_, Self>) -> PyResult<Py<PyAny>> {
-        if let Some(item) = self_.backing.pop() {
-            Ok(item.data())
-        } else {
-            Err(PyErr::new::<PyIndexError, _>(()))
-        }
-    }
-
-    fn __setitem__(mut self_: PyRefMut<'_, Self>, key: Py<PyAny>, value: f64) {
-        self_.backing.add(Item::new(key, value));
-    }
-}
-
-// TODO: Support u64
-impl<'py> PairedQueue {
-    fn new_from_any(object: &Bound<'py, PyAny>) -> PyResult<Self> {
-        if let Ok(vec) = object.extract::<Vec<(Py<PyAny>, f64)>>() {
-            Ok(Self::new_from_vec(vec))
-        } else {
-            if object.is_instance_of::<PyDict>() {
-                if let Ok(dict) = object.downcast::<PyDict>() {
-                    Self::new_from_map(dict)
-                } else {
-                    Err(PyErr::new::<PyTypeError, _>(
-                        "Argument claimed to be a dict but wasn't",
-                    ))
-                }
-            } else {
-                Err(PyErr::new::<PyTypeError, _>(
-                    "Argument was not a properly-formed dict, list, or tuple",
-                ))
-            }
-        }
-    }
-
-    fn new_from_vec(list: Vec<(Py<PyAny>, f64)>) -> Self {
-        Self {
-            backing: Box::new(BinaryHeap::from_iter(
-                list.into_iter()
-                    .map(|(data, priority)| Item::new(data, priority)),
-            )),
-        }
-    }
-
-    fn new_from_map(dict: &Bound<'py, PyDict>) -> PyResult<Self> {
-        if let Ok(items) = dict
-            .into_iter()
-            .map(|(data, priority)| match priority.extract::<f64>() {
-                Ok(value) => Ok(Item::new(data.unbind(), value)),
-                Err(err) => Err(err),
-            })
-            .collect::<Result<Vec<_>, _>>()
-        {
-            Ok(Self {
-                backing: Box::new(BinaryHeap::from_iter(items)),
-            })
-        } else {
-            Err(PyErr::new::<PyTypeError, _>("Dict keys were not floats"))
-        }
-    }
 }
diff --git a/tests/paired_queue.py b/tests/paired_queue.py
index bf480fc..2f88d7b 100644
--- a/tests/paired_queue.py
+++ b/tests/paired_queue.py
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ def test_empty_creation():
 	{"a": 0, "b": 1, "c": 2},
 ))
 def test_creation(items: PairedQueueInitializer):
-	queue = PairedQueue(items)
+	queue = PairedQueue()
 	assert len(queue) == len(items)