diff --git a/Lib/asyncio/queues.py b/Lib/asyncio/queues.py
index a9656a6df561ba..825728b460478b 100644
--- a/Lib/asyncio/queues.py
+++ b/Lib/asyncio/queues.py
@@ -40,11 +40,11 @@ def __init__(self, maxsize=0):
         self._unfinished_tasks = 0
         self._finished = locks.Event()
         self._finished.set()
-        self._init(maxsize)
+        self._init()
 
     # These three are overridable in subclasses.
 
-    def _init(self, maxsize):
+    def _init(self):
         self._queue = collections.deque()
 
     def _get(self):
@@ -221,7 +221,7 @@ class PriorityQueue(Queue):
     Entries are typically tuples of the form: (priority number, data).
     """
 
-    def _init(self, maxsize):
+    def _init(self):
         self._queue = []
 
     def _put(self, item, heappush=heapq.heappush):
@@ -234,7 +234,7 @@ def _get(self, heappop=heapq.heappop):
 class LifoQueue(Queue):
     """A subclass of Queue that retrieves most recently added entries first."""
 
-    def _init(self, maxsize):
+    def _init(self):
         self._queue = []
 
     def _put(self, item):
diff --git a/Lib/queue.py b/Lib/queue.py
index 55f50088460f9e..a9aa01663a1cde 100644
--- a/Lib/queue.py
+++ b/Lib/queue.py
@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@ class Queue:
 
     def __init__(self, maxsize=0):
         self.maxsize = maxsize
-        self._init(maxsize)
+        self._init()
 
         # mutex must be held whenever the queue is mutating.  All methods
         # that acquire mutex must release it before returning.  mutex
@@ -203,7 +203,7 @@ def get_nowait(self):
     # These will only be called with appropriate locks held
 
     # Initialize the queue representation
-    def _init(self, maxsize):
+    def _init(self):
         self.queue = deque()
 
     def _qsize(self):
@@ -226,7 +226,7 @@ class PriorityQueue(Queue):
     Entries are typically tuples of the form:  (priority number, data).
     '''
 
-    def _init(self, maxsize):
+    def _init(self):
         self.queue = []
 
     def _qsize(self):
@@ -242,7 +242,7 @@ def _get(self):
 class LifoQueue(Queue):
     '''Variant of Queue that retrieves most recently added entries first.'''
 
-    def _init(self, maxsize):
+    def _init(self):
         self.queue = []
 
     def _qsize(self):