Python Requests – Dynamically Pass HTTP Verb

Just use the requests.request() method. First argument is the HTTP verb that you want to use. requests.get(), requests.post(), etc. are just aliases to request('GET'), request('POST'): see the doc

Your code becomes:

verb = 'POST'
response = requests.request(
     verb,
     headers=self.auth,
     url=self.API + '/zones/' + str(zID) + '/dns_records',
     data={"type":record[0], "name":record[1], "content":record[2]}
)