[Python] Should I reuse a handler between loggers?

Should I reuse a handler between loggers? It looks like I can:

import logging
import sys

fmt = logging.Formatter('My little handler:\t%(message)s')
handler = logging.StreamHandler(sys.stdout) # for testing purposes (in reality this goes to a log file)
handler.setFormatter(fmt)

logger_1 = logging.getLogger("Numero uno")
logger_1.addHandler(handler)
logger_1.setLevel(logging.INFO)

logger_2 = logging.getLogger("Numero duo")
logger_2.addHandler(handler)
logger_2.setLevel(logging.DEBUG)

logger_1.info("Info to 1")
logger_2.info("Info to 2")
logger_1.debug("Debug to 1")
logger_2.debug("Debug to 2")

# Output is as expected:
# My little handler: Info to 1
# My little handler: Info to 2
# My little handler: Debug to 2


But should I? Is there anything that could go wrong with such a setup?

In case it matters, my intended use case is as follows

• many loggers (one per module)
• two handlers per logger
  • one handler shared by all loggers: everything of level INFO or more is written to main.log, with a consistent formatting
  • one logger-specific handler: everything (even DEBUG statements) from module foo is written to foo.log (but formatting may be different across modules/loggers).

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