Django: How to get current user in admin forms?

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Here is what i did recently for a Blog:

class BlogPostAdmin(admin.ModelAdmin):
    form = BlogPostForm

    def get_form(self, request, **kwargs):
         form = super(BlogPostAdmin, self).get_form(request, **kwargs)
         form.current_user = request.user
         return form

I can now access the current user in my forms.ModelForm by accessing self.current_user

EDIT: This is an old answer, and looking at it recently I realized the get_form method should be amended to be:

    def get_form(self, request, *args, **kwargs):
         form = super(BlogPostAdmin, self).get_form(request, *args, **kwargs)
         form.current_user = request.user
         return form

(Note the addition of *args)

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