title: Running Selenium tests with IE using python
body: <p>The installation page <a href="http://code.google.com/p/selenium/wiki/InternetExplorerDriver" rel="nofollow">here</a> says to add the selenium server standalone jar to the CLASSPATH. What does the jar do? Do I need it? I ran some selenium code already and it works without it. I just instantiated IE doing</p>
  
  <p><code>driver = driver.Ie()</code></p>
  
  <p>I am running webdriver (selenium 2) in Python, trying to test IE9 (and then after test IE8). (I'm not using .NET, just running a .py file) Thanks!</p>