import from the new logging package

[Logan]

Is there actually a good reason why the StreamHandler and the
FileHandler are in the core package and all other handlers are
in logging.handlers?

I first did not realize this when reading the documentation of
the logging package and wrote a script which used:

    from logging import FileHandler

When I changed the script to use the 'RotatingFileHandler', I
did not figure out that I had to use

    from logging.handlers import RotatingFileHandler

until I read the source code of the logging package. And only 
after I had a look at 'handlers.py', I thought that this must 
be described in the documentation; so I read the documentation 
again and finally found it. (Well, actually on the first page, 
but that page is quite long :-)

So, yes, it was my fault (did not read the documentation line
by line). But: why was the package designed in that way?

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