request.user in Django model

Here you haven't imported request in that model class scope. This is how you can get user:

# modelclass StockTickerSymbol(models.Model):    StockName = models.CharField(max_length=7, unique=True)    user = models.ForeignKey(User)    def save(self,**kwargs):      if kwargs.has_key('request') and self.user is None:            request = kwargs.pop('request')            self.user= request.user      super(StockTickerSymbol, self).save(**kwargs)#views:def post(self, request):   if form.is_valid():                                sts=StockTickerSymbol()       sts.StockName= form.cleaned_data['StockName']       if form.cleaned_data['user'] is None: #null check          sts.save(request=request)       else:          sts.user= form.cleaned_data['user']          sts.save(request=request)

For modelform:

class SomeForm(forms.ModelForm):    ...    def save(self, commit=True ,*args, **kwargs):        request = None        if kwargs.has_key('request'):            request = kwargs.pop('request')        m = super(SomeForm, self).save(commit=False, *args, **kwargs)        if m.user is None and request is not None:            m.user= request.user            m.save()

in views:

def post(self, request):   if form.is_valid():        form.save(request=request)      return ...