From gh-1099 ; probably needs a similar treatment to `ctrb` there. pyflakes says: ``` control/statefbk.py:278:5: local variable 'b' is assigned to but never used ``` code with docstring removed: ``` def acker(A, B, poles): # Convert the inputs to matrices a = _ssmatrix(A) b = _ssmatrix(B) # Make sure the system is controllable ct = ctrb(A, B) ```