On android x86:

>>> import resource
>>> resource.setrlimit(resource.RLIMIT_FSIZE, (2**31, 2**31))
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
OverflowError: Python int too large to convert to C long
>>> resource.setrlimit(resource.RLIMIT_FSIZE, (2**31-1, 2**31-1))
>>> resource.getrlimit(resource.RLIMIT_FSIZE)
(2147483647, 2147483647)
>>> 


The test_io tests that fail may be skipped by trying first to set this resource limit (if existing) to the max file size tested, in a spawned interpreter.