Matt Hegarty

Thanks Alex - will be interested to see if you can add to this in future, but will close for now.

> each row seems to have a raw_values property but it returns an empty dict. I can confirm that the `raw_values` attribute was added in #852, but it is not...

Could it be related to [this change](https://github.com/django-import-export/django-import-export/pull/1185/files) in v2.1.0 ?

@franhace Are you able to confirm if this is still happening in v2.5.0?

Can you help us out with steps to reproduce? What exact error are you seeing? Have you overridden any code or added any customisations? What do your Resources look like?

For future reference... This would actually be fairly easy to do. When the Result class is [instantiated](https://github.com/django-import-export/django-import-export/blob/7b1e3920c8a905ed7e47da79bd4031fb40266e22/import_export/resources.py#L704) we could pass in the row number as a named parameter ('row_number' is...

Will take a look when I get chance

@mikaraunio Thanks for this update. I feel that updating the 'Getting started' docs would be a great way to move this forward. If you are able to submit a PR...

I think we could have some issues now because [xlrd no longer supports xlsx files](https://github.com/python-excel/xlrd/blob/master/CHANGELOG.rst). I don't know if this will definitely be an issue, but it has just hit...

It would help for issues like #1425, we could use the DRF `DecimalField` class to format and process numbers correctly. At the moment we are in danger of duplicating logic.