Django: request.user in form

Question

How may I get the user details to use within a from? I know in the view I can just do:

currentUser=request.user

But if I use it in the form as so I get the following error "'request' is not defined".

class SelectTwoTeams(BootstrapForm):

    currentUser=request.user

    date_joined = currentUser.date_joined.replace(tzinfo=pytz.utc)

    timeless30 = datetime.datetime.now() - datetime.timedelta(seconds=3610)
    timeless30 = timeless30.replace(tzinfo=pytz.utc)

    if date_joined > timeless30:
        currentCharities = forms.ModelChoiceField(queryset=Charity.objects.filter(enabled=1), empty_label=None, widget=forms.Select(attrs={"class":"select-format"}))

    team1 = forms.ModelChoiceField(queryset=StraightredTeam.objects.none(), empty_label=None,
                               widget=forms.Select(attrs={"class":"select-format"}))
    team2 = forms.ModelChoiceField(queryset=StraightredTeam.objects.none(), empty_label=None,
                               widget=forms.Select(attrs={"class":"select-format"}))

Many thanks for any help in advance.

Below shows the init of this form just incase it may help. I know how to get access to the user data using kwargs for this part:

def __init__(self, *args, **kwargs):
    user = kwargs.pop('user', None)
    self.currentSelectedTeam1 = kwargs.pop('currentSelectedTeam1', None)
    self.currentSelectedTeam2 = kwargs.pop('currentSelectedTeam2', None)
    self.currentfixturematchday = kwargs.pop('currentfixturematchday', None)
    self.currentCampaignNo = kwargs.pop('currentCampaignNo', None)
    super(SelectTwoTeams, self).__init__(*args, **kwargs)

    cantSelectTeams = UserSelection.objects.select_related().filter(~Q(fixtureid__fixturematchday=self.currentfixturematchday),campaignno=self.currentCampaignNo, )

    if not cantSelectTeams:
        queryset = StraightredTeam.objects.filter(currentteam = 1).order_by('teamname')
    else:
        queryset = StraightredTeam.objects.filter(currentteam = 1).exclude(teamid__in=cantSelectTeams.values_list('teamselectionid', flat=True)).order_by('teamname')

    teamsAlreadyPlaying = StraightredFixture.objects.filter(soccerseason=1025, fixturematchday=self.currentfixturematchday, fixturedate__lte = timezone.now())
    postponedGames = StraightredFixture.objects.filter(soccerseason=1025, fixturematchday=self.currentfixturematchday,fixturestatus = "P")

    queryset = queryset.exclude(teamid__in=teamsAlreadyPlaying.values_list('home_team_id', flat=True)).order_by('teamname')
    queryset = queryset.exclude(teamid__in=teamsAlreadyPlaying.values_list('away_team_id', flat=True)).order_by('teamname')
    queryset = queryset.exclude(teamid__in=postponedGames.values_list('home_team_id', flat=True)).order_by('teamname')
    queryset = queryset.exclude(teamid__in=postponedGames.values_list('away_team_id', flat=True)).order_by('teamname')

    self.fields['team1'].queryset = queryset
    self.fields['team2'].queryset = queryset
    self.fields['team1'].initial = self.currentSelectedTeam1
    self.fields['team2'].initial = self.currentSelectedTeam2

    self.fields['team1'].label = False
    self.fields['team2'].label = False

    date_joined = user.date_joined.replace(tzinfo=pytz.utc)

    timeless30 = datetime.datetime.now() - datetime.timedelta(seconds=3610)
    timeless30 = timeless30.replace(tzinfo=pytz.utc)

    if date_joined > timeless30:
        self.fields['currentCharities'].label = False

Django: request.user in form

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