Multilevel partial wavelet reconstruction with PyWavelets I'm looking for a way to partially reconstruct branches of a wavelet decomposition, such that the sum would recreate the original signal. This could be achieved in MATLAB using:

DATA = [0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9]
N_LEVELS = 2;
WAVELET_NAME = 'db4';
[C,L] = wavedec(DATA, N_LEVELS, WAVELET_NAME);
A2 = wrcoef('a', C, L, WAVELET_NAME, 2);
D2 = wrcoef('d', C, L, WAVELET_NAME, 2);
D1 = wrcoef('d', C, L, WAVELET_NAME, 1);
A2+D2+D1

ans =

    0.0000    1.0000    2.0000    3.0000    4.0000    5.0000    6.0000    7.0000    8.0000    9.0000


I'd like to achieve the same using pywt, but I'm not sure how to go about this.
The pywt.waverec function creates a full reconstruction, but doesn't have a level parameter for partial reconstruction.
The pywt.upcoef function does what I need for a single level but I'm not sure how to expand this for multiple levels:

&gt;&gt;&gt; import pywt
&gt;&gt;&gt; data = [1,2,3,4,5,6]
&gt;&gt;&gt; (cA, cD) = pywt.dwt(data, 'db2', 'smooth')
&gt;&gt;&gt; n = len(data)
&gt;&gt;&gt; pywt.upcoef('a', cA, 'db2', take=n) + pywt.upcoef('d', cD, 'db2', take=n)
array([ 1.,  2.,  3.,  4.,  5.,  6.])
I managed to write my own version of the wrcoef function which appears to work as expected:

import pywt
import pdb
import numpy as np

def wrcoef(X, coef_type, coeffs, wavename, level):
    N = np.array(X).size
    a, ds = coeffs[0], list(reversed(coeffs[1:]))

    if coef_type =='a':
        return pywt.upcoef('a', a, wavename, level=level)[:N]
    elif coef_type == 'd':
        return pywt.upcoef('d', ds[level-1], wavename, level=level)[:N]
    else:
        raise ValueError("Invalid coefficient type: {}".format(coef_type))



level = 4
X = [0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14,15,16,17]
coeffs = pywt.wavedec(X, 'db1', level=level)
A4 = wrcoef(X, 'a', coeffs, 'db1', level)
D4 = wrcoef(X, 'd', coeffs, 'db1', level)
D3 = wrcoef(X, 'd', coeffs, 'db1', 3)
D2 = wrcoef(X, 'd', coeffs, 'db1', 2)
D1 = wrcoef(X, 'd', coeffs, 'db1', 1)
print A4 + D4 + D3 + D2 + D1

# Results:
[  9.99200722e-16   1.00000000e+00   2.00000000e+00   3.00000000e+00
   4.00000000e+00   5.00000000e+00   6.00000000e+00   7.00000000e+00
   8.00000000e+00   9.00000000e+00   1.00000000e+01   1.10000000e+01
   1.20000000e+01   1.30000000e+01   1.40000000e+01   1.50000000e+01
   1.60000000e+01   1.70000000e+01]